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Sinbad the Sailor is a story-cycle of ancient Middle Eastern origin. Sinbad is a Persian word hinting at an Iranian origin - although the oldest texts of the cycle are in Arabic. Sinbad, the hero of the stories, is a sailor from Basrah, living during the Abbasid Caliphate. A variation of this name, Smbat, can also be found in Armenia, as well as the version Lempad of his father's name Lambad.
The stories themselves are based partly on real experiences of sailors around the Indian Ocean, partly on ancient poetry (including Homer's Odyssey and Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra), and partly upon Arab, Indian and Persian collections of mirabilia. They recount the fantastic adventures of Sinbad during his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia.
The collection is tale 133 in Volume 6 of Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). This remains the classic translation in English (famed as much for Burton's footnotes as for the tales themselves), but modern readers are perhaps more familiar with abridged versions produced for a more juvenile audience. While Burton and other Western translators have grouped the Sinbad stories within the tales of Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights, its origin appears to have been quite independent from that story cycle and modern translations by Arab scholars often do not include the stories of Sinbad or several other of the Arabian Nights that have become familiar to Western audiences.
In pop culture
- Sinbad appears in the comic book series Fables written by Bill Willingham, and as the teenaged Alsind in the comic book series Arak, Son of Thunder—which takes place in the 9th century AD—written by Roy Thomas.
- In the Arabian Nights-themed video game Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sinbad looks almost exactly like Knuckles the Echidna.
- In Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier Sinbad appears as the Immortal Orlando's lover of thirty years.
- Sinbad provides the theme for Sindbad's Storybook Voyage at Tokyo DisneySea, for a roller coaster at the Efteling theme park at Kaatsheuvel in The Netherlands, and for an elaborate live-action stunt show, The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad, at the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida.
- Sinbad The Sailor is a track in the Bollywood movie Rock On!!
Films, TV, animation
Many films, television series, animated cartoons, novels, and video games have been made, featuring Sinbad not as a merchant who happens to stumble into adventures, but as a dashing dare-devil adventure-seeker.
- Sinbad the Sailor (1935) - animated short
- Sinbad (1936)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936) - In this Popeye cartoon, Sindbad is an antagonist and bears a strong resemblance to Bluto.
- Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
- The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (1962) - a heavily-modified American version of a non-Sinbad Russian movie called Sadko (1953)
- Son of Sinbad (1955)
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
- Adventures of Sinbad (1962)
- Captain Sindbad (1963)
- Sinbad Jr. (1965)
- Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973)
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
- Arabian Nights Sinbad no Boken (1975) - an anime TV series by Nippon Animation
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
- Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
- Sinbad (1993)
- The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor (1996)
- The Adventures of Sinbad (1996-98)
- Alif Laila - A TV series by Sagar Films ( Pvt.Ltd.) for DD National. Also shown on SAB TV & Ary Digital tv channels
- Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000)
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
- Sinbad sails alone This is a "Backyardigans" episode. (2007)
- Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag (Later episodes)(2005)- A TV series by Sagar Films ( Pvt.Ltd.) for STAR TV (Asia)